When Mihailo Bozic and Dylan Gibbs launched a job board exclusively for visa-sponsoring employers, they were betting on a market reality they saw: according to Bozic, fewer than 5% of U.S. companies will sponsor an international worker, even as he estimates hundreds of millions seek opportunities abroad.
That narrow slice, it turns out, was big enough.
Migrate Mate, their New York-based platform, has raised $2.4 million in seed funding, with investors including Wischoff Ventures, Bain Capital, NY Ventures, and Redbud VC, according to a marketing case study published by growth agency SideShift. Forbes reported in January 2026 that the company had secured "more than $3 million" since 2024—a figure suggesting additional capital beyond the disclosed round.
The funding arrives as both founders landed spots on Forbes' 30 Under 30 Social Impact list for 2026. Not bad for a company that claims to have hit $1.5 million in annual recurring revenue within five months of serious operations.
Solving for Visa Chaos
Migrate Mate isn't reinventing the job board. It's narrowing it. The platform runs on a subscription model, aggregating what it describes as over 500,000 positions at companies willing to sponsor H-1B, OPT, TN, E-3, and other U.S. work visas. Users can filter by visa type—a seemingly simple feature that addresses a maddeningly opaque corner of the job market.
The company now serves more than 30,000 users across 70-plus countries, according to its own figures. By late 2024, Migrate Mate had reportedly crossed 1,000 paid subscribers in just 13 weeks. By mid-2025, that number had climbed to 10,000 paid users.
Delaware incorporation records show the company formally established itself on January 29, 2025, with New York operating authority following months later. Among its backers: NY Ventures' Pre-Seed and Seed Matching Fund Program, which invests between $50,000 and $250,000 with a required 1:1 private capital match.
TikTok and Timing
How does a niche B2B job platform find users fast? In Migrate Mate's case, user-generated content on TikTok.
SideShift's case study credits a six-week UGC campaign with generating more than 15 million organic views, tripling the user base, and helping close the seed round. The timing of that close wasn't disclosed, but the social strategy appears to have worked—perhaps more effectively than the founders initially expected.
A September 2025 profile in Bulletpitch pegged the startup's ARR at $1.5 million within five months. A separate post from Stripe, published later that year, noted the company hit $1.3 million ARR roughly four months after incorporating through Stripe Atlas. The exact sequencing of these milestones is somewhat unclear, though both data points suggest rapid early traction.
Who's Building This
Bozic, the CEO, previously led growth at Kiki and theMednet, a Y Combinator alum from the Winter 2017 batch. He also founded a startup called Envited. Gibbs, the CTO, comes from a different background entirely—he ran a media production agency with clients including Red Bull.
The team currently sits somewhere between five and ten employees. They're hiring: a full-stack software engineer role in New York recently posted at $130,000 to $160,000, plus equity.
Bozic has framed the company around a market inefficiency—millions of people want to work in the U.S., but finding the minority of employers willing to navigate visa paperwork remains frustratingly difficult. Migrate Mate is, essentially, building a search engine for that minority.
What's Next (and Who Else Is Here)
The startup is expanding its mobile app and recruiting features. Its help center continues to publish new articles, with content posted as recently as February 2026. Last August, the company co-hosted a job fair for international students at the Open Atlas Summit, a sign it may be thinking beyond pure software toward event-based talent matching.
Competition exists, though the landscape is fragmented. Platforms like Jobright.ai, FrogHire.ai, and EB-3 Work target similar users, as do established visa-specific boards like H1BVisaJobs.com and MyVisaJobs. User sentiment, at least on Reddit and Trustpilot, is mixed. Some praise the visa-type filtering; others question whether all the listings are accurate or current.
Still, the funding and growth numbers suggest Migrate Mate has found something. Whether that something scales into a sustainable business—or simply fills a gap until larger platforms adopt similar filtering—remains the open question. For now, Bozic and Gibbs are building, hiring, and riding a wave of attention that's rare for a bootstrapped job board in a crowded market.
